I have never heard of someone working so hard as Miso did to try to get this CPU block to perform properly. What we see here is an amazing amount of time and effort by an individual who was hell-bent on getting good temps out of this block. Unfortunately for Miso's sanity and Koolance's marketing, it was not meant to be.

So, could this possibly re-open the mirror finish vrs more surface area argument?

I'm really surprised that it did that poorly....

On another topic that came up during the review.....

Would tweaking the individual mounting screws improve overall temps, or is it more for getting the cores closely matched?

There is no question of whether mirror finish is worth having. Swiftech has been saying forever that a "flat" finish (which is not to say matte) is far more important than a mirror finish. I definitely agree with them.

Tweaking the individual mounting screws helps me determine if this block (like the bowed APOGEE GT/GTX) benefits from HARD clamping to get optimal temps. Both of those blocks like to be held down with a lot of force, whereas this one doesn't seem to care that much. The FuZion is also not that fussy with mounting pressure.

It really is a gorgeous block. If I was doing out a system for aesthetics only, I may actually consider using it. Mind you, I'm not ;)

And yeah, can you feel the hate DRIPPING off that word?

To be perfectly honest, my rig is going through some changes right now, and it is actually running 100% on air... I'm polishing the internals of my TJ07, drilling a few holes for some simple mods, and sleeving all of my bare wires, so my water cooling could be down for as much as 3 weeks, during which a small part of my soul will wither and die.